I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of sel...f-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The remnant of Indians thereabout--all but exterminated in their recent and final war with regular white troops, a war waged by th...e Red Men for their native soil and natural rights--had been coerced into the occupancy of wilds not far beyond the Mississippi.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »